Barton [the bartender who found the phone] showed the device to a tech-savvy regular named Dave who immediately identified it as the upcoming Nexus 4, which Google is set to unveil at an event in New York on Oct. 29.

Dave agreed to make some calls to Google HQ. When Barton heard back from him the next day, Dave was shaken.

“Dave” — Barton says he does not know his full name — “sort of freaked out. ‘Google lost a phone,’ he told me. ‘You just got a guy fired…. The Google police are coming.’”

The Google policeman in this case was a short but pushy man named Brian Katz, according to Wired. Katz went after Barton, who was at the Mission police station reporting the lost phone, but something unexpected happened:

“It was the night of the riot,” says Ragi Dindial, a lawyer Barton knew through the music scene. “I met Katz there and they hustled us out the back door, past riot police in full riot gear and automatic weapons.”

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